Wednesday, July 24, 2013 at 12:30PM
Independence Branch
18 S. 7th Street, 19106
215-685-1633
Filmmaking Workshop for Teens | Lil’ Filmmakers
Teens can learn how to successfully create and make a film. This six-week workshop series will guide teens through a complete film cycle. Lil’ Filmmakers will teach you how to create a film from initial conception, through screenplay development, and final project. Registration is required and space is limited. To register, call Marianne at 215-685-1633 or e-mail her at banborm@freelibrary.org.
• Session 1: introduction to program, acting, general knowledge and interest
Wednesday | June 19 | 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.
• Session 2: character development, acting exercises, storytelling, screenplay writing
Wednesday | June 26 | 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.
• Session 3: introduction to video equipment, introduction to set design
Wednesday | July 3 | 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.
• Session 4: final movie planning, casting, crew jobs, story development
Wednesday | July 10 | 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.
• Session 5: shoot final project
Wednesday | July 17 | 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.
• Session 6: shoot final project
Wednesday | July 24 | 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.
When: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 at 8:15PM
Where: Central Library
Cost: $15 General Admission, $7 Students
Alice Walker’s esteemed literary career spans over four decades and includes seven novels, four collections of short stories, four children’s books, and volumes of essays and poetry. Her 1983 novel The Color Purple received the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and was adapted for Steven Spielberg’s 1985 film and the Broadway stage. Her many honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Lennon/Ono Peace Grant, and a residency at Yaddo. In 2006, she was an inaugural inductee into the California Hall of Fame, and in 2007 her archives were opened at Emory University. Her new book The Cushion in the Road is a collection of meditations on topics ranging from racism to Africa to healthcare and the work of Aung San Suu Kyi. Ms. Walker will also read from her new book of poems The World Will Follow Joy: Turning Madness into Flowers.
When: Saturday, December 8, 2012 at 7:00PM
Where: Central Library
Cost: FREE, No tickets required
For Info: 215-567-4341
BOOK SIGNING GUIDELINES BELOW
Food Network icon Rachael Ray is host of the Emmy Award–winning syndicated show Rachael Ray, as well as 30-Minute Meals and Tasty Travels. Her bestselling cookbooks include The Book of Burger and Rachael Ray’s Look + Cook—a “bullet-proof recipe go-to source” (Time). She is the founder and editorial director of the lifestyle magazine Every Day With Rachael Ray and the founder of Yum-o!, a charitable organization committed to promoting healthy family meals. Ranging in scope from last-minute meals to family feasts and her husband’s cocktail recipes, Ray shares more than 500 recipes from her own kitchen in My Year in Meals.
In conversation with Michael Klein, editor/producer of philly.com/food and a Philadelphia Inquirer Table Talk columnist.
SIGNING GUIDELINES:
Bracelets will be distributed to audience members who wish to purchase a new book and have it signed. Bracelets are first come first served.
You must have a bracelet and new book in order to enter the signing line.
Rachael will personalize only the new cookbook.
Books other than The Year in Meals will receive a signature but no personalization.
When: Monday, November 5, 2012 at 6:30PM
Where: Central Library
Cost: FREE
No tickets required. For Info: 215-567-4341.
David Livewell grew up in Kensington, Philadelphia. He has taught poetry at La Salle University, and his poems have appeared in Poetry, Threepenny Review and Yale Review. His earlier poetry book, Woven Light, celebrates the Pennsylvania paintings of Andrew Wyeth; his other book, Shackamaxon, won the T.S. Eliot Award in 2012. He lives with his wife and two children in New Jersey.
Joseph A. Chelius has a B.A. in English from LaSalle University and an M.A. in Creative Writing from Temple University. He works as a senior copy editor for a healthcare communications agency in the Philadelphia suburbs, and has had two poetry chapbooks published by Pudding House: Taking Pitches (2006) and Row House Yards (2011). He was Bucks County Poet Laureate in 2000.
Monday Poets is presented in the Skyline Room on the 4th Floor of Parkway Central on the first Monday of every month and is moderated by Lamont Dixon.
When: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 at 7:30PM
Where: Central Library
Cost: $15 General Admission, $7 Students
Sandra Cisneros is best known for her American Book Award-winning novel The House on Mango Street, composed of a series of poetic vignettes. Dedicated to “las mujeres” (the women), the book portrays poverty, alienation, and violence, while rendering the exhilaration of childhood and the salvation of literature. Her other books include the novel Caramelo, a New York Times notable book; Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories, recipient of the Lannan Foundation Literary Award; and the children’s book, Hairs/Pelitos. A 1995 MacArthur fellow, Cisneros is the founder of the Alfredo Cisneros Del Moral Foundation and the Macondo Foundation, which serve creative writers. Have You Seen Marie? is a vividly illustrated story about a woman’s transformative search in the wake of her mother’s death.
Thursday, October 25, 2012 at 3:30PM
Queen Memorial Library
1201 South 23rd Street, 19146-4316
You are invited to our fun-for-all Halloween Party. Costumes are welcome. There will be snacks to munch. You can win a prize and share SPOOKY stories. Be ready to put your SCARE on! For more information, contact the Librarian at 215-685-1899.
When: Monday,
October 15, 2012 at 6:00PM
Where: Independence Branch
Lee Fishman – Author Event
Local author, Lee Fishman, will present readings from her debut novel, Edge of a Dream. This gripping novel is a story of suspense, survival, and the American Dream. Ms. Fishman will participate in a Question & Answer session upon completion of her readings. Light refreshments will be served. For more information, contact the Librarian at 215-685-1633.
Summer is here! What better way to beat the heat than to head to a branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia for a free Philadelphia Stories, Junior writing workshop? If you live near the Tacony, Richmond, or West Oak Lane branches of the Free Library, check out these amazing writing workshops! You might even get your work published in a future issue of Philadelphia Stories, Junior.
Philadelphia, PA 19134
Philadelphia, PA 19138
2-4PM
2000 E. Washington Lane
Philadelphia, PA 19138
Philadelphia, PA 19134
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